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Your Input Needed in Development Survey & Town Hall Meetings

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From the City of Central

    As you may have heard, we have been chosen for LED’s 2011 Louisiana’s Development Ready Communities program by the state.  We are one of eight cites chosen!  This program is one of LED’s strategies to strengthen the Economic competitiveness of municipalities. 

    As part of this program, each municipality must implement four development-ready elements before completing its own strategic plan.  These elements are community assessment, strategic planning, leadership development and marketing of a community. 

   One of the goals of this program is that our city develop an understanding of and address community issues and needs.  This program also contains planning assistance by a professional mentor and customized training.  This results in our city becoming certified as development ready.

    To begin this program, residents and business owners are being asked to complete a detailed survey online.  You can access the survey by visiting our city webpage, www.centralgov.com, and clicking the link on the homepage or by picking up hard copies at City Hall, the Chamber office or the local library on Joor Rd.  Deadline for completing survey is July 19. 

    Both the business and community surveys are being conducted by Zoomerang, a third-party contractor as a tool recognized as an industry standard.  Data is collected electronically and results are also generated digitally by Zoomerang and sent to the City.  This information will be used to help insure that Central’s future growth honors the ideals and desires of its citizens.

    We will also have two Town Hall meetings that will offer citizens the opportunity to share their vision of the future for Central and to participate in this process on Tuesday, July 19 at Central Middle School cafeteria.  Times will be 7:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.  We urge you to attend either one of these sessions.

    For more information on this program, please visit www.LouisianaCommunityNetwork.com.

 

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